Core Network Engineers - must have worked for an ISP

V-Soft Consulting is currently seeking two Core Network Engineers. This is a Contract/contract to hire position in the broadband internet services industry.

LOCATION: Warrenville, IL or Alpharetta, GA

2 POSITIONS

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Education and Experience ?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 6+ years’ experience in ISP environment
• 8-10 years’ experience in network architectures
• Expert routing knowledge (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, RSVP and multicast) required
• Extensive network engineering and architecture experience - excellent understanding of Internet and datacenter topologies
• Experience evaluating, configuring, and troubleshooting a variety of network equipment especially Juniper, Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent), and Cisco - solid understanding of associated vendor hardware architecture and characteristics
• Experience in a 24/7 Internet facing production environment and ensuring customer requirements are effectively anticipated and met according to scope, criticality, and severity level

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities ?

• Strong interpersonal skills that will foster collaboration between stakeholders, technical team, management and end-users.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Thorough understanding of various L2/L3 protocols and technologies: TCP/IP (v4 & v6) and related protocols, multicast, MPLS-based services, QOS, BFD, LACP, VRRP, STP, etc
• Understanding of Layer 4-7 switching/load balancing and application integration
• Solid understanding of network based security protocols and methods (eg IPSec, SSL, TLS, ACLs)
• Able to investigate new technologies, develop scalable network solutions, and create successful business cases to propose new configurations, architectures, services, and policies
• Analytical approach to problem solving and usage of methodical & documented processes to propose network enhancements
• Must be able to perform basic mathematical functions/calculations

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Job Responsibilities:

• Generates conceptual, logical, and physical network architectures, documents, testing analyses, test plans and risk assessments to ensure sound architecture that aligns with company’s long term strategy.
• Provides technical leadership to engineering team to accomplish research, analyze and design network architecture to meet company requirements
• Research and analyze the most complex data, voice, and video network and hardware problems and provide recommendations for solution
• Develop and maintain a road map for capabilities, operations and technologies
• Determine methods and procedures to be implemented and used on complex new technologies to enhance performance.
• Proactively identify opportunities to increase backbone network reliability and reduce costs
• Research technological advancements to ensure that voice, data, and video networking solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards
• Participate in evaluating complex data, voice, or video networking technologies to understand their potential and recommends future direction
• Evaluate cost analyses and vendor comparisons for large-scale projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations, and measures feasibility of various approaches
• Assists in creating department budget
• Revise model and budgetary guidelines as appropriate and in conjunction with engineering leadership to ensure company and client needs are met
• Recommend complex investment decisions to management and internal customers based on results of independent assessment of current and future data network performance, stability, and network management issues
• Identify, adjust and implement changes to investment based upon changing business needs
• Work with other engineering teams to ensure detailed designs are deployable, and able to be operated with minimal impacts to customers, and operating expenses
• Work with vendor partners to ensure engineering requirements are aligned with product roadmaps
• Act as a mentor and provide oversight to junior network engineering staff and implementation engineering.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Lorie Gironda | Senior IT Recruiter

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